Cambridge company moves into US for "triple business"

Cambridge-based ANT is expanding, with the opening of a US headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

The news follows the closure of a second funding round late last year. It is part of an aggressive expansion; the embedded Internet browser and e-mail software company told Electronics Times that it expects to triple sales this year to £6m.

Michael Hartford joins from Avnet Electronics as general manager in charge of North, Central and South America, and will be based in Boston. He said: "ANT has browser technology that is mature and stable, in a marketplace filled with relatively immature and unstable alternatives."

Simon Woodward, president and CEO of ANT, said: "We have seen exceptional growth in North America and this is an ideal time for us to establish headquarters on the East Coast to lend support to our Los Angeles office.